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Tatahouine is a diogenite meteorite that fell near Tataouine in southern Tunisia on 27 June 1931. It consists mainly of orthopyroxene and represents deep crustal material from a differentiated asteroid; diogenites form part of the HED meteorite clan generally associated with Vesta. The fall produced...
Johnstown is a diogenite meteorite that fell near Johnstown, Colorado, in July 1924 after a witnessed fireball and detonations. About 23 kilograms of material were recovered, making it a substantial documented diogenite fall. Its coarse-grained, orthopyroxene-rich composition places it within the ho...
Bilanga is a diogenite meteorite that fell in Burkina Faso in 1999, producing numerous recoverable fragments. Diogenites are coarse-grained achondrites dominated by magnesium-rich orthopyroxene and belong to the howardite-eucrite-diogenite, or HED, association. They are generally interpreted as mate...
Shalka is a diogenite meteorite that fell in Bihar, India, in 1850. Diogenites belong to the HED clan of differentiated achondrites and consist largely of magnesium-rich orthopyroxene, representing igneous material formed within the crust of a differentiated parent body. HED meteorites are commonly...
Aioun el Atrouss is a diogenite that fell in Mauritania in 1974, a coarse-grained orthopyroxenite representing deep crustal igneous material from the HED parent body, asteroid 4 Vesta.
